The Invading Past, 44th Day of Childwinter, 525 M.E. (Betelgeuse):  Today, the day after Gabbard Day, the Senate voted along party lines to confirm vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the FDA, the NIH, and the CDC. Not a single Democrat voted for Kennedy and Mitch McConnell was the sole Republican vote against him. 

Vaccine skepticism has led to measles outbreaks in various places across the U.S. Bird flu is causing the price of eggs, a big campaign issue, to soar to record heights, and has already crossed over to humans - according to the journal Nature, at least 68 people in North America have already become ill from the disease and at least one person has died. 

But the Trump administration response has been to withdraw the U.S. from the WHO, freeze research funding, and appoint a lunatic-fringe figure to lead our national health agencies.

We're fucked. When's that comet coming, again?